Module MUSI44030: Recorded Performance

Department: Music

MUSI44030: Recorded Performance

Prerequisites

• • We require evidence of standard at least equivalent to a strong 2:1 degree final year performance recital. A video recording of no less than 10 minutes must be submitted to prove that the applicant is of the required level.

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To develop skills in presenting musical ideas through recorded performance, including repertoire selection and profiling of the individual’s musical strength.
• To employ practical and intellectual skills appropriately and effectively in the preparation and delivery of performance. These skills include an ability to communicate music with technical competence, knowledge and understanding of the repertoire of the chosen instrument or the voice.

Content

• Each student will compile a 20-minute programme of performance to be submitted as an audio compact disc with written sleeve notes.
• The performance will comprise of their own performance on their chosen instrument. The content of the project will be decided in consultation with a tutor, and must be approved by the module leader. This module is about improving performance skills through repeated listening to one’s own performance. The Department will provide a recording facility and technical assistance for a set number of hours per student, and the recordings submitted must be produced within that time allocation. The module is based on independent study and supported by individual tutorials and group seminars. Individual instrumental tuition forms part of the learning.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will gain practical and critical understanding of how to prepare for and what is involved in a successful production of a recorded performance. Through work on performance with a recording supervisor and a sound engineer, students develop both presentation and team-working skills.

• Students will gain an understanding of the expressive breadth/depth required for a recorded performance project
• Students will develop a critical ear
• Students will gain an advanced measure of personal expression and creativity in practical music making.

• The ability to listen and judge critically
• The ability to think through sound and articulate ideas in performance

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Performance seminars on various performance practice issues, lectures on recording techniques and producing liner notes and booklets
• Individual tutorials to prepare for written and practical assessments; individual instrumental/vocal lessons

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Recording project early in Term 2. A one-hour test recording to make students familiar with the surroundings of the recording studio and the process of preparing recordings for editing.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University